Podcasts about Enlightenment

Are you curious about who you really are, why you are here and where you are going? If you have questions about this reality and notice that something's off. Listen to this episode if you are a chosen one, a healer, light-worker, motivator and you feel like something is calling you to expand. Join us for Rise and Prime: https://www.riseandprime.co Do you experience anxiety daily and looking for a tea blend to help reduce the hyperactiveness and stress of being pulled from within. Buy a specialty tea blend from the Holistic Motivator's Shop called Anxie-TEA. - Text Me for daily inspirational messages Subscribe to our email list on Edtalksdaily.com so you never miss a thing ! -- Add Ed on IG: https://instagram.com/theholisticmotivator — What is Ed Talks Daily? The Ed Talks Daily podcast is about growth in all aspects of your life. How do you solidify a great mindset that will lead to a healthy body, healthy relationships, and an in-tune spirit? Join me on this journey to becoming the best version of ourselves. If you want a podcast that you can relate to, a podcast that will motivate and inspire you all while educating you on ways to personally develop and grow as a human being, Ed Talks Daily is for you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edtalksdaily/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/edtalksdaily/support

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Clay is joined by Darren Staloff, the author of Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding. In this incisive book, Staloff writes that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of European enlightenment with the founding of America. You can order Clay's new book at Amazon, Target, Barnes and Noble, or by contacting your independent bookstore. The Language of Cottonwoods is out now through Koehler Books. Mentioned on this episode: Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding by Darren Staloff Find this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our new merch. You can find Clay's publications on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

Another powerful and potent gathering with Cynthia Charis! On December 21st, 2021, our entire Solar System ascended, catalyzing a new era of unprecedented upliftment and expansion throughout the Heavens. Together, with the Sun of our Solar System and all of the Celestial Masters, we helped to birth a new, expanded Solar System; a new Family […]

This a chapter from spiritual and meditation teacher Kimberly Snyder's brand-new audiobook, "You Are More Thank You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life." Kimberly will teach you how to revise your belief system, fulfill your deepest dreams and desires, and create an epic, successful, and inspiring life. Listen to the full audiobook FREE for 14 days in the Hay House Unlimited Audio App. Try now! Apple: hayhouse.com/apple or Android: hayhouse.com/google

Kimberly Snyder, author of You Are More Than You Think You Are, teaches how to discover your true self. Headlines: Are you a perpetrator of MASK FRAUD and Is it time to lower your dating standards? Questions: Is it time to throw fish pics back in the sea and is it cheating if you just started DMing? You can get Kimberly's book, You Are More Than You Think You Are, on shelves now. Be sure to check out all things Solluna at Mysolluna.com! This show is brought to you by OkCupid. OkCupid is FAMOUS for matching people on what MATTERS MOST to them, from food to the type of relationship they want...to politics. They ask you really thoughtful and provoking questions to get to the heart of who you are and what type of person you're looking for. Are you missing out? Download OkCupid today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erik Cason Joins me for an in-depth conversation exploring some of his written works and Kantian philosophy related to the nature of truth and power in the context of Bitcoin's emergence.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTErik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErikcasonErik's Website: http://cryptosovereignty.org/PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 The Military Value of Cryptoassets00:05:09 Bitcoin as a Refusal of the Praxis of Violence00:08:40 Physical Power vs. Political Power00:11:58 The Nature of True Crypto-Sovereignty00:16:00 Encountering Truth and Emergence of the Cyphernet00:21:00 Money as the Prime Mover; Organizations are Applications of Money00:25:07 The Incentives Underlying Statism00:29:21 Satoshi as Homo Sacer00:35:54 Satoshi as a Pioneer of a New Digital Continent00:43:01 Bitcoin Kicking Off the “Knife Fight Between Nation-States”00:48:37 Agape and the Encounter with the “Perfect Other”00:57:48 Human Nature: A Core Component of Bitcoin01:01:04 NYDIG01:02:12 An Economic Machine of Truth Requires Proof-of-Work01:07:54 Bitcoin is Parasiticide to Bureaucracy01:17:05 Reimagining the Meta-Structures Superimposed on Power Relations01:21:31 The Inversion of Politics: “Truth, Not Authority, Makes Legitimacy”01:32:06 Physics-Rooted Encryption Bringing Humans Nearer to Natural Law?01:40:23 Enlightenment as the Emergence of Nonage01:47:24 All Human Decrees by Fiat are Attempts at Playing God01:58:22 A Hopeful Vision for the Adaptation of Statism to Bitcoin02:02:02 Enlightenment Requires the Free Use of Human Reason02:11:11 Bitcoin as the Only Antidote to the Self-Deception of Fiat02:16:09 3% Global Adoption as a Catalyst to Hyperbitcoinization?02:21:21 “Righteous Anger is that which is Directed at Resolution”02:27:11 The Risk of a Core Error in Bitcoin02:29:20 The Paradoxical Concourse of Human PoliticsSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack

Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast and our series on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. After kicking off the episode with their commonplace quotes, Angelina, Cindy and Thomas start digging into the play itself. Thomas brings up the importance of the timing of this story being midsummer. Angelina gives a little background into the names and characters in this play as well as some of the major ideas we can be looking for in the story. In February Angelina will be offering a webinar on Jonathan Swift: Enemy of the Enlightenment. Check it out at HouseofHumaneLetters.com. Join us this spring for our next Literary Life Conference “The Battle Over Children's Literature” featuring special guest speaker Vigen Guroian. The live online conference will take place April 7-9, 2022, and you can go to HouseofHumaneLetters.com for more information. Commonplace Quotes: Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet. John Dryden, in a letter to Jonathan Swift It would be difficult indeed to define wherein lay the peculiar truth of the phrase “merrie England”, though some conception of it is quite necessary to the comprehension of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In some cases at least, it may be said to lie in this, that the English of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, unlike the England of today, could conceive of the idea of a merry supernaturalism. G. K. Chesterton And yet, there are people who say that Shakespeare always means, “just what he says.” He thinks that to find over and under meanings in Shakespeare's plays is to take unwarranted liberties with them, is like a man who holds the word “spring” must refer only to a particular period of the year, and could not possibly mean birth, or youth or hope. He is a man who has never associated anything with anything else. He is a man without metaphors, and such a man is no man at all, let alone a poet. Harold Goddard Advice to Lovers by Robert Graves I knew an old man at a Fair Who made it his twice-yearly task To clamber on a cider cask And cry to all the yokels there:-- "Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. "Whistle, and Love will come to you, Hiss, and he fades without a word, Do wrong, and he great wrong will do, Speak, he retells what he has heard. "Then all you lovers have good heed Vex not young Love in word or deed: Love never leaves an unpaid debt, He will not pardon nor forget." The old man's voice was sweet yet loud And this shows what a man was he, He'd scatter apples to the crowd And give great draughts of cider, free. Book List: “Battle of the Books” by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton The Meaning of Shakespeare by Harold Goddard The Elizabethan World Picture by E. M. Tillyard Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at morningtimeformoms.com, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy's own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

when things go wrong... you are not alone, this is a time of adversity we are all in together.we can choose to look up and go inward .. we can know there is a truth that will always reveal itself and there is a notion that we are not alone in this - we are all part of a continuation we can read from the greats of our past and present  marcus aurelius  warren buffett  thich nhat hanh pedma chodron  say more prayers - see all sides, be open choose empathy - kindness - grace and stop being such a shithead.  be grateful for all the good things you do have  my love always xx ck 

Kimberly Snyder, nutritionist, New York Times best selling author, brand founder, spiritual guide, meditation teacher and so much more joins us today on the podcast. We discuss everything from her latest book: You Are More Than You Think You Are, to her journey with health over the past 10 years, how to view everything as energy, dealing with a partner who isn't plantbased and tips to deal with comparison. She shares a day in her life and provides the ideal morning routine for your busy life, as well as how to go beyond numbers and so much more. TOPICS: Her journey over the last 10 years and 6 books later Identifying ego vs. true self - Using it in the Everyday How her passion for nutrition has changed over the years Food as energy and the benefits of a plantbased diet Tips to deal with a partner who isn't plantbased Morning practice in practical terms for a busy life How to deal with comparison in practical ways The power of journaling Going beyond numbers (calories, weight, salary, etc.) Kimberly's Day in the Life Learn more about Kimberly Snyder NED CBD: Take 20% OFF with code PLANTBASED Ritual: Take 10% OFF your first 3 months with ritual.com/PBNP

Jess Gillam talks to recorder player Lucie Horsch about the music they love including the warm vocal tones of Omara Portuondo, some speaker shaking bass from Mark Guiliana, an early choral classic from Faure and masterful film music from Bernstein and Hans Zimmer. Playlist: Bernstein – West Side Story: Overture [Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story Orchestra, Johnny Green] Omara Portuondo – La sitiera (Rafael Lopez) Mark Guiliana - Bud Schubert – 4 Impromptus Op.142, D.935: No.4 in F minor: Allegro scherzando [Andras Schiff, piano] Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine [City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier] Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes Hans Zimmer - Matera from 'No Time To Die' Handel – Theodora - oratorio in 3 acts: Act 1 sc.4; As with rosy steps the morn [Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket]

Welcome to today's episode!Today, we discuss the book written by Guy Spier entitled The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment, and we're going to echo the important and valuable lessons we can imitate from Guy himself. I realized how important Guy's book is  after my conversations with new investors and other seasoned investors alike. If you are planning to get ahead and be the best in your investing career this year, listen throughout the episode and message me for more information about Real Estate investing.Let's get started!   [00:01 - 02:12] Opening Segment  Thank you for tuning in for today's show! I share our topic for today's show I share my takeaways through conversations I've had   [02:13 - 15:12] How to apply these lessons to yourself Reading between the numbers Truly understanding what the numbers mean Gaining information and making decisions Common biases someone might have Rules an investor should follow when investing Strategies to use for when you invest in Real Estate   [15:13 - 16:26] Closing Segment Final Thoughts We will begin coaching sessions next month! If you are interested in my coaching and consulting program, please reach out to me through email at  shane@shanemelanson.com or see below for my website link. I want to make sure to cater those interested, so please use the word “coaching” on the body or subject line. Don't forget to connect with me and grab ahold of my free book through my website below Resource Mentioned: The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment - Guy Spier   Tweetable Quotes:   “There's no right or wrong. It's what you believe. And if you don't believe in investing in commercial real estate, specifically in this asset class to be the right thing for you, then it really does not matter if you see an incredible property or not…” - Shane Melanson   “Understand your personal biases when making decisions.” - Shane Melanson   “Every market is always going to be different.” - Shane Melanson __________________________________________________________________________ LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone invest in commercial real estate with confidence by sharing this episode or click here to listen to our previous episodes.   Follow The Investing Podcast on all Streaming platforms. Deezer, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or visit our YouTube Channel.   If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to go even deeper into the world of commercial real estate, head over to my website for more information on my services, new book, and my blog.   Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or email me at shane@shanemelanson.com

Here's a talk I gave in Phoenix, Arizona in 2012 about the Grand Canyon and Enlightenment.

In Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Duke UP, 2021), Dr. Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about how psychology and meditation practice can work together to help people heal, working with trauma, the importance of heart-based practices such as metta, spiritual bypassing, using shamatha to build new brain networks, and Tina's own story of her birth trauma and her path to healing.Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D., began meditating at age 13, and has practiced in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions for over 30 years. In 2003, she completed a year-long solo retreat, was later ordained as a Buddhist nun and became the first Western woman authorized to teach by renowned meditation master Pa Auk Sayadaw. Tina has been studied by the Yale Neuroscience Lab, and is the co-author of Practicing the Jhanas, as well as several books on human potential. Tina Rasumussen's website: luminousmindsangha.comContribute to Michael's Patreon or directly to help fund the creation of more of these podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Linda Backman returns to the podcast, following up on her May 2021 episode about Past Lives and Soul Types. This time, Dr. Backman shares what she's learned, through thousands of regressions, about Councils in the Spiritual Realm, and how they guide humanity through these pivotal times. Connect with Us!Website: https://www.beyondthereikigateway.comKathleen's Website: https://universoulheart.netAndrea's Website: https://www.mainstreamreiki.comListen to Dr. Backman's Past Lives and Soul Types Episode!Connect with Dr. Linda Backman!Website: RavenHeart Center, Boulder, COBooks by Dr. Backman:Bringing Your Soul to Light: Healing through Past Lives and the Time BetweenThe Evolving Soul: Spiritual Healing through Past Life ExplorationSouls on Earth: Exploring Interplanetary Past LivesPodcast Partners:Our podcast is proud to partner with companies we believe in. We may receive financial compensation when links are used due to our affiliate agreements while you get access to their special offers and discounts featured below.Buzzsprout is the easiest and best way to launch, promote, and track your podcast!Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery delivery!FREE Delivery on your First Order!Kathleen's Amazon Storefront - "Nurture Your Spirit, Refresh Your Mind, Relax Your Body"Andrea's Amazon Shop - Inspired by the Podcast + Tools, Decor, Music and MoreKathleen and Andrea may earn money through Amazon for qualifying purchases.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/beyondthereikigateway)

Two years ago, we created A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment to share the rich tradition of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation in a form that requires no belief beyond what science currently accepts. The first 40 episodes of the podcast gradually go through all of these topics, in order, beginning with appreciating the gift of our life and our place in the universe, and gradually moving up to cultivating boundless compassion for all beings and understanding the ultimate nature of our inner and outer realities. Over the next year, interspersed with new interviews, we will be re-releasing updated versions of these topics every few weeks, alternating an introduction to each topic on Tuesday with a meditation on Friday. Here's the first one, What Is A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment.Episode 1: What Is A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment? Introducing A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment, bringing the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. We take a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology, based on powerful Buddhist mind training techniques that use imagination, intelligence, and emotions to probe our inner and outer realities, and expand our compassion.Support the show (https://www.skepticspath.org/support/)

If you are following a calling or some inner guidance, it can be a scary journey. Why?Your heart will always guide you to something that's unknown. However, many people will wait until they feel comfortable or try to figure out what's on the other side before they leap. This isn't how life works, and the patterns can keep you stuck. What I really admire are those who are taking their leaps even if it goes against their mind's logic. Molly ended her teaching career, sold her possessions, sold her house and moved interstate, not knowing where it would take her.Her realtor even questioned why she was selling the house!By listening to this chat, it might also reveal the scary leaps your heart is guiding you to take. What you will learn:How to move past the fear How to develop your trust and practice letting go of what your mind is attached toHow sound healing can help you on your entrepreneurial journeyYou can connect with Molly using the links below: www.MollyAdkins.comhttps://linktr.ee/mollyadkins; scheduler: https://mollyadkins.as.me/FB personal page https://www.facebook.com/mollyradkins; FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweringfempreneursIG https://www.instagram.com/mollyssoundwellnessYouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Ks7nZNjneOiPfkQRX4NxQ Yes, it's here and in the Serving Circle where you help elevate consciousness through spiritual business success. So, if you are a spiritual entrepreneur and want to collaborate with your soul tribe, I'll see you in there:https://www.facebook.com/groups/theservingcircleInsta: https://www.instagram.com/tysoncoaching/Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/tyson.sharpe.37/

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It's never too late to choose a word that'll keep you focused on your goals, big and small!  After a late-night, eye-opening conversation with my brother about business decisions and what lofty goals to shoot for this year, I was reminded to test my plans against scripture.  I've learned that God's plan is always greater than mine. If I'm choosing to have a faith-based business and make choices to serve, I have to be intentional about what I “pursue.” Whether it's the first of the year or halfway through, I highly recommend choosing a word that inspires, motivates, and is grounded in scripture. Pray on it, read what the Bible says about it, and watch the blessings God has for you come to life! Highlights from this episode: {01:25} Clearing the clutter {08:28} Basing action in scripture {11:38} I was wrong (and that happens often!) {17:14} 2020 was all about patience {22:15} You are not alone {25:43} Enlightenment through prayer Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy  Ep 60: Ask For Help Ep 95: Resolutions vs Lifestyle Choices with Kelly Mobeck Ep 96: Paralysis by Analysis    Biblegateway.com Gotquestions.org   Scripture references: “Pursue” Jeremiah 29:11-13 Psalm 53:2 Romans 3:10-12 John 6:44   “Anxiety” Philippians 4:6 1 Peter 5:7 Psalm 94:19 Proverbs 12:25 Psalm 139:23   I hope this episode encourages you to pick a word for the year that'll keep you focused on what God has planned for you, and check it against scripture. Afterall, what word could be more powerful than the word of God?!   If you enjoyed this episode please share it with a friend, and it would mean so much to me if you could take a quick moment to write a REVIEW on Apple Podcasts!  Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox. Big news:   The 100th Episode is coming up!  To be featured on this episode, send a short audio submission through www.speakpipe.com/PaigeKillian about something you've learned or enjoyed about the podcast by January 30th. The episode airs February 7th.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!  For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

"There are only so many ways to live, but infinite ways to die." - Maggie -------------------------------------- More from MME: www.mindmuscleenlightenment.com Connect with Maggie directly: https://linktr.ee/maggiedong -------------------------------------- Other episodes: 158 - Changing The Way We Look At Triggers 160 - Goodbye, Spiritual Matrix (What Is Spirituality, Really?) 161 - Reclaiming Your Sexuality -------------------------------------- Maggie Dong is a consciousness activator, energy healer, and speaker who guides people to master their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual fitness, so they can create the life that they desire. All links: https://linktr.ee/maggiedong Questions/requests, email maggie@mindmuscleenlightenment.com 

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Patreon Saloners PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a recording of a live salon that began with us sharing trip stories and eventually led into a discussion of Vedic astrology as well as right speech, right action, and right thinking. Along the way, we heard a wonderful story about the unintended consequences of missionaries thinking that they were doing good but inadvertently almost destroyed the social order of a small community. Links from this Live Salon Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants Biphasic Sleep: What It Is And How It Works Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake Using Cortisol & Adrenaline to Boost Our Energy & Immune System Function Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

Bryan invites friend of the show Cory Hanks to discuss what the discourse surrounding Halo is once the honeymoon phase has ended. What is *THE* element of Halo that Infinite got so right? Our faith has been rewarded.

We celebrate our 100th episode by reviewing some of the key insights of the last three years of Awareness Explorers, and by answering questions from our listeners. We'd like to thank these listeners for sending in their excellent questions and giving us the opportunity to reflect on them in this episode: Sharon, Lisa, Ajay, Spencer, Joshua, Doug, and Debra. Thanks! Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ Although we don't have a guided meditation in this episode, if you want to listen to the meditations from other episodes alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by Marcel Eberle on Unsplash  

Are you in true self or are you in ego? Kimberly Snyder joins Lacy to talk about practical ways to move through fear and ego to get back to your inner self, how Kimberly inspired Lacy to start her first blog, life as a single mom, Vedic astrology, and tons more.Kimberly also shares how she finds time for self-care as a mother, how she built her lifestyle brand Solluna, and they cover what God and connection means to each of them. A great listen for all the spiritual seekers out there looking for grounded insights. Find the Complete Show Notes Here -> https://tobemagnetic.com/expanded-podcast  In This Episode We Talk About:Kimberly's unique life story, including how she built her lifestyle brand Solluna!How she inspired Lacy to start her first blogLife as a single mom and meeting her soul mateHolistic nourishment and finding beauty from withinKimberly's process of conceiving, writing and publishing her first bookVedic astrology and how it differs from Western astrologyHow to find time for self-care as a mother and caretakerThe four cornerstones of true wellness and beauty!Inner Child work, journaling, introspection, enlightenmentWhat God and connection mean for Kimberly and LacyPractical ways to move through fear and being stuckChakras, seers, meditation, third-eye intuition! Resources: The Pathway - (12-month commitment) - Looking To Start Your Membership? Use code EXPANDED for $20 off your first month of the Pathway  or $20 off any ala carteA la Carte Workshops NewsletterText Us: +1-213-423-5226 - (texting is only for US, Canada, & Puerto Rico)Sign Up for our TBM Manifestation Journal Waitlist In The Episode:BLUblox- Use Code “MAGNETIC” For 15% Off!emFlo EMF & 5G Radiation ShieldingAnti-radiation laptop mat Expanded Ep 72 x Andy Mant of BLUbloxExpanded Ep. 36 x Andy Mant BLUblox Beekeeper's Naturals - 15% off your purchase with code TBMB. Smart Brain FuelB.Immune Throat SprayExpanded Ep. 137 x Carly Stein of Beekeeper's Naturals You Are More Than You Think You Are - Kimberly Snyder (book) New Book!The Beauty Detox Solution - Kimberly Snyder (book)Recipes For Your Perfectly Imperfect Life - Kimberly Snyder (book)Radical Beauty - Kimberly Snyder (book)The Beauty Detox Power - Kimberly Snyder (book)The Beauty Detox Foods - Kimberly Snyder (book)SollunaProbioticDetoxyPower Of Now - Eckhart Tolle (book)Expanded x Ep. 138: Byron Katie on Witnessing Ego & Relieving SufferingCommentary on the Bhagavadgita - Swami Krishnananda (book) Where To Find Kimberly!@_kimberlysnyderYou Are More Than You Think You Are - Kimberly Snyder (book) New Book!SollunaProbioticDetoxyFeel Good Podcast Our Offerings:Looking To Start Your Membership? - Use code EXPANDED for $20 off your first month of The Pathway or $20 off any a la carte workshop.A La Carte - Not ready for a membership? Try an individual workshop with 3 months of access.The Basics Bundle - How To Manifest, Unblocked Inner Child & Unblocked ShadowUnblocked Inner Child Unblocked Shadow The Love Bundle - Unblocked Love & Relationships Reflection Mini-WorkshopUnblocked Money The Pathway - 12-month all-access membership includes ALL of our a la cartes + more!How To Manifest, Unblocked Inner Child, Unblocked Shadow, The Love Bundle, Unblocked Money+ The Daily Practice includes our Deep Imagining Library with over 18+ DIs+ Unblocked Boundaries + Unblocked Full Moon+ Uplevel - 3 in 1 includes Rut, Rock Bottom & Next Level workshops+ Monthly Supported Class+ Community Group to connect with fellow manifestors+ Automatic access to any new offering or DI that becomes available as well! Free Offerings to Get You StartedThe MotivationFree Clarity Exercise - Journal prompt + 1 Deep ImaginingExpanded Podcast - Manifestation 101  SubmitSubmit to Be a Process GuestLeave a Review 5-star review for a chance to win a 1-year membership to The Pathway 2.0. Then tune into future episodes to hear your review announced! If you win send us a message on Intercom hi@tobemagnetic.com to claim it. 

Research shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells   Oregon State University, January 11, 2022 Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the ability to prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells. Van Breemen and collaborators, including scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, found that a pair of cannabinoid acids bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a critical step in the process the virus uses to infect people. The compounds are cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, CBDA, and the spike protein is the same drug target used in COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapy. A drug target is any molecule critical to the process a disease follows, meaning its disruption can thwart infection or disease progression.   Tomato concentrate could help reduce chronic intestinal inflammation associated with HIV   University of California Los Angeles, January 11, 2021 New UCLA-led research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the diet can reduce the intestinal inflammation that is associated with HIV. Left untreated, intestinal inflammation can accelerate arterial disease, which in turn can lead to heart attack and stroke. The findings provide clues to how the altered intestinal tract affects disease-causing inflammation in people with chronic HIV infection, suggesting that targeting the inflamed intestinal wall may be a novel way to prevent the systemic inflammation that persists even when antiviral therapy is effective in controlling a person's HIV.     Too much sitting could mean worse outcomes for cancer survivors   Cancer Care Alberta (Canada), January 11, 2022 A new study shows those who sit too much and are not physically active are much more likely to die early from cancer or any other cause than those who are more active. Data on cancer survivors who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2014 showed that inactive survivors who reported sitting more than eight hours a day were at the highest risk of dying. "Cancer survivors who did not meet the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans [150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous intensity leisure-time physical activity] and sit longer than eight hours per day had more than a fivefold increase in the risk of death from all causes—cancer and non-cancer," said lead researcher Lin Yang. The link was particularly troubling because the researchers found that as many as one-third of cancer survivors didn't exercise and sat more than six hours a day. Only about one-third got the recommended 150 hours of exercise a week, Yang said.     Running could improve brain function in people with Gulf War illness   Texas A&M University, January 10, 2022 It has now been three decades since 700,000 American troops responded to the invasion of Kuwait in the first Gulf War, and more than a third of those troops still suffer from the same condition: Gulf War Illness (GWI). Previously labeled Gulf War syndrome, GWI is characterized by persistent reduced cognitive function, memory problems, mood and sleep disturbances, chronic pain and fatigue. The exact cause of GWI is not known, though it is suggested that some combination of the prophylactic drug pyridostigmine bromide (PB), the mosquito repellant N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), insecticide permethrin (PER), multiple pesticides, low doses of Sarin, and chronic war-related stress are to blame. Positive findings notwithstanding, the impracticalities of a drug that is not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) led Shetty to explore more accessible means. With perhaps the most simple of interventions that could be asked (certainly one familiar to our veterans), he found that running a few times each week could be powerful in the relief of GWI-related symptoms.     Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells   Low levels of catalase enzyme make cancer cells vulnerable to high-dose vitamin C University of Iowa, January 9, 2022 Vitamin C has a patchy history as a cancer therapy, but researchers at the University of Iowa believe that is because it has often been used in a way that guarantees failure. Most vitamin C therapies involve taking the substance orally. However, the UI scientists have shown that giving vitamin C intravenously--and bypassing normal gut metabolism and excretion pathways--creates blood levels that are 100 - 500 times higher than levels seen with oral ingestion. It is this super-high concentration in the blood that is crucial to vitamin C's ability to attack cancer cells. Earlier work by UI redox biology expert Garry Buettner found that at these extremely high levels (in the millimolar range), vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells but not normal cells in the test tube and in mice. Physicians at UI Hospitals and Clinics are now testing the approach in clinical trials for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer that combine high-dose, intravenous vitamin C with standard chemotherapy or radiation. Earlier phase 1 trials indicated this treatment is safe and well-tolerated and hinted that the therapy improves patient outcomes. The current, larger trials aim to determine if the treatment improves survival. In a new study, published recently in the December issue of the journal Redox Biology, Buettner and his colleagues have homed in on the biological details of how high-dose vitamin C (also known as ascorbate) kills cancer cells.   People with early-onset Parkinson's disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet   University of Leicester (UK), January 10, 2022 •    Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease •    Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found in a variety of foods including meats and nuts •    Research suggests niacin boosts levels of NAD compound in body for energy generation and DNA repair, which is critical for keeping mitochondria in shape and Parkinson's at bay •    Drugs that block NAD-consuming DNA repair already exist to treat cancer - therefore these drugs could be repurposed to protect faulty mitochondria in Parkinson's disease "This study strengthens the therapeutic potential for Vitamin B3/niacin-based dietary interventions in the treatment of Parkinson's disease" - Dr Miguel Martins, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson's disease may benefit from boosting the amount of niacin in their diet, according to new research from the University of Leicester. Niacin, or Vitamin B3, is found in a variety of foods, including nuts and meat. The team from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease.     America's Crisis of Cultural Moral Panic   Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 12, 2022 It is one thing to show a man that he is in error and another to put him in touch with truth… No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience” – John Locke (Essays Concerning Human Understanding) Locke was not alone in questioning what we believe to be true knowledge, and pointing out the consequences of failing to discern falsehoods from reality. Locke was in excellent company.  Due to the scientific revolution, which inspired several generations of deep thinkers, naturalists and philosophers, including Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza, Darwin, Bacon and Voltaire, the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason has dominated the intellectual world of ideas for nearly two centuries. Locke's statements remain pertinent because today there is a new generation that has been indoctrinated by the shortcomings of scientific materialism. It was intended to bring forth a new purity, an idyllic perfectionism of thought and beliefs founded alone upon objective inquiry. But now this higher ideal has degenerated into a juvenile revolution fuelling identity politics, the cancel culture of wokeness, and a passionate micro-aggression that derives hedonist pleasure in ridicule and insult. One of its more lofty goals is to end free speech as we know it – except for those who are woke. Other goals are to institute a faux collectivism and to abolish meritocracy or social rewards earned through effort and achievement. For many years, important voices of critical thought – Noam Chomsky, Henry Giroux, Jordan Peterson, to name a few, have been warning us that this day was rapidly approaching. However, since there are no dynamic leaders in the youth's woke moment of Maoist-style cleansing and purging of wrong-views, wrong attitudes and wrong beliefs, most of us in the older generations wrongly assume it would be a passing phase. But it wasn't. In fact, the consequences of this unleashed furor, evidenced by an absence of self-reflection and critical thought, has been channeled into a mob rule of dissent and abuse.  In the virtual world gatherings of protest across social media, it is nearly unstoppable. No one is challenging them, neither the mainstream media nor the majority of academia. Rather, corporate leaders and persuasive forces within the ranks of liberal democratic institutions are coming to their aid. Therefore, it proceeds under the cover of a silent political power to sustain its energy. On the other hand, today's youth have every reason to feel disenchanted and to suffer rampant existential angst, the emptiness of not feeling a deeper sense of purpose and meaning in the world at large.  American neoliberalism's and our educational system's single-minded attention on science and technology -- which in themselves are amoral disciplines -- and rote memorization and testing has resulted in two decades of our youth becoming increasingly illiterate in the humanities, critical evaluation and reflective inquiry.  It is also the most irreligious generation in American history. Without the skills of introspective thought to develop a sense of genuine well-being and true happiness, or what Plato called eudomonia as opposed to hedonia, (the pursuit of temporary or transient pleasures), our nation has tossed its youth to the rabid dogs of the social Darwinian rat race for survival. Therefore, it is not surprising that suicides among today's teens and twenty-somethings have risen 47 percentduring the past two decades.  Sadly the casualty rate is higher after we consider there are 36 percent more people living in their 20s today than there were at the turn of the century. Thirty-two percent of youth through their 20s have clinical anxiety disorders, 1 in 9 suffer from depression and almost 14 percent have ADHD.  Although the medical community would like us to believe these are either inherited or biological conditions attributable to brain chemical imbalances, there is absolutely no scientific consensus proving there is a direct, observable causal relationship between brain function and mental states.  Certainly there are correlated relationships; but correlation is not causation.  The latter is solely a belief, an assumption, without any conclusive and confirming data. The causes are elsewhere and perhaps to be found in our dysfunctional society and the complete breakdown of traditional ethical structures and universal values. In 1972, South African sociologist Stanley Cohen proposed the Moral Panic Theory, an irrational widespread fear that threatens one's sense of values, safety and cohesion to one's “tribal” identity.  This moral panic, Cohen observes, is bolstered by the injustices of the ruling elite and its mouthpieces in the media. It also centers aroundthose who society marginalizes and is based upon “ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and religion.” Ashley Grossman, writing for ThoughtCo, makes the point that those in power will ultimately most benefit from moral panics “since they lead to increased control of the population and the reinforcement of the authority of those in charge.” The panic aroused grassroots movements provides the government or state “to enact legislation and laws that would seem illegitimate without the perceived threat at the center of the moral panic.” The popular fear of the Covid-19 virus and the unvaccinated created by our federal health officials and their news media allies is another recent example of Moral Panic Theory. Unfortunately, most of the country has entered a Moral Panic phase: the vitriolic propaganda in both parties, the greed and opportunism of the oligarchic and corporate elite, QAnon and the Alt-Right, and the Woke-Left. Repeatedly woke students are demanding their schools and colleges make assurances that they are emotionally safe from ideas and philosophies that challenge their fragile comfort zones. Teachers and professors who challenge their students' illusions about knowledge and their fragile self-identity are being ostracized with calls for administrative dismissal. How many academicians are forced to remain silent to avoid the consequences of the new woke Inquisition? Such student actions are indicative of their weak sense of self-worth and existential angst; yet we must look at modern parental upbringing and our culture's leading elders, as noted by Jonathan Haidt, to diagnose the causal factors for this psychological catastrophe of two entire generations. Consequently, when collective panic reaches a threshold, Cohen's theory might explain the sudden eruption of irrational behavior entangled in the rise of a cancel culture built upon an intellectual anarchy that is frighteningly irrational. And it is equally endemic to the reactionary maleficence of white supremacists and militias. So when a new book emerges, White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, and becomes the holy grail of woke truths, we are lectured that what will not be tolerated is any deviation or heresy its espoused twisted emerging social norm. The author's central theme is that if you have the misfortune of being born with the wrong genes into the wrong family a with the wrong skin color, you are a racist and will be such for the remainder of your days.  Hence every White person is condemned with a defective moniker blazed across the forehead. And since meritocracy likewise is damned, all achievements are reduced to an inherited privilege of having been born Caucasian.  Your attempt to defend yourself and profess your free speech is a testament of your heresy. No apology or act of humility can save you. It is a life sentence without parole for good behavior. White Fragility is already being taught in many schools, with the full cooperation of teacher unions and school administrators. Resistance will be a subversive act and an admission of your racism. It is critical to observe this may be heading towards a new paradigm of Orwellian social control. Yet there is barely a shred of credible scientific evidence to support DiAngelo's hypotheses.  It is a flawed opinion, and a dangerous one at that.  Worse, its long-reaching conclusions could advocate for a repressive regime of a future scientism dictatorship that Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell warned.  Russell noted that “collective passions” have a penchant to inflame “hatred and rivalry directed towards other groups.” He was acutely aware that “science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for the good life as the head.” And DiAngelo's screed falls into the dark abysmal waters of genetic determinism that gave rise to racist fascism. Russell further cautioned that this distorted over-reliance on faux science could be “a curse to mankind.” Perhaps, during its Icarus moment, wokeness will self-destruct under its own rashness and the internal fire of its undiscerning ardor.  What carnage it leaves in its wake remains to be seen. Yet there is nothing new or original in the cultural rebellion we are witnessing. This game has been played out before in previous acts that strived for an adolescent and unreachable social perfection.  It will have its blowback.  In his Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton observed that for every action there is an equally opposing reaction. However, we have yet to witness how it will boomerang. But we will.  In the meantime, a new class of wannabe priests is emerging within the woke movement, a priesthood David Hume warned about in his Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, which will in turn be an adversary to liberty. Consider the backlash after Harpers magazine published a Letter on Justice and Open Debate to warn about “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”  Signed by over 160 brilliant minds, academicians and authors – liberal and conservative -- including Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Haidt, Susannah Heschel, Steven Pinker, Gloria Steinem, etc, the letter gives a stark warning of the unwelcomed consequences of the new culture of censorship that the demonstration's leaders are ushering into the nation at large. The woke now demand retribution against its signers, in effect shutting down the nation's 200-plus years of free speech, the right to disagree and public discourse. Have those who are most rabidly eager to condemn and cancel the wide diversity of voices who disagree with their beliefs considered earlier precedents for their actions? It was the Spanish Inquisition.  In principle, how many today are in effect labeled heretics and “witches” because they have spoken publicly in favor of free speech and oppose censorship? May not the woke movement in turn become the harbinger of a new Inquisition, a new platform of economic and social persecution by the powerful and wealthy waiting in the corridors after the cult of woke loses its steam? The causal problems to our terrified culture is of course far deeper and has been identified and analyzed repeatedly in the writings of Chris Hedges and Henry Giroux.  Our nation thrives on victimizing others.  Now the once disenfranchised victims of the liberal woke generation, erupting from its simmering angst and meaninglessness, are determined to be the new victimizers. What is the end game when a populist uprising of disillusioned and psychologically traumatized youth at the mercy of capitalism's parasitical march to claim more victims gets the upper hand. The movement has now evolved beyond its original demands of racial justice for the Black and other minority communities who have been discriminated against by our institutions, particularly law enforcement and the private prison system. Now it is rapidly morphing into a massive autonomous cult of divisiveness and self-righteousness without a moral backbone that recognizes the essential values of forgiveness, reconciliation, and cooperative engagement for preserving a sane and productive culture that benefits all.     Insurance companies should ‘penalize' the unvaxxed, ethicist at New York University recommends   Professor Arthur Caplan said that people who have chosen not to get jabbed should pay higher insurance premiums and be barred from getting life insurance LifeSite News, Jan 6, 2022 An ethicist at New York University said that people who have not gotten jabbed should be punished by insurance companies. “By and large, if you're vaccinated and boosted, even if you get infected, you're going to be fine. You're going to be fine here. It's the unvaccinated who are going to be hurt, so why should anyone who is boosted bother at this point to do anything that makes the unvaccinated more safe?” CNN's John Berman asked Professor Arthur Caplan, the director of the medical ethics division at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Professor Caplan agreed that the unvaccinated should be shamed and treated poorly by society, though he said he hopes he can change their minds. “I'll condemn them. I'll shame them. I'll blame them,” Professor Caplan said. “We can penalize them more, say you will have to pay more on your hospital bill. You can't get life insurance, disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren't vaccinated.”     NO DEATHS FROM VITAMINS - Safety Confirmed by America's Largest Database   Orthomolecular News Service, January 7th 2022 The 38th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from vitamins. It is interesting that it is so quietly placed way back there where nary a news reporter is likely to see it. The AAPCC reports zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, pyridoxine (B-6) any other B-vitamin. There were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or from any vitamin at all. On page 1477 there is an allegation of a single death attributed to an unspecified, unknown "Miscellaneous Vitamin." The obvious uncertainly of such a listing diminishes any claim of validity. There were no fatalities from amino acids, creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, or chondroitin. There were no deaths from any homeopathic remedy, Asian medicine, Hispanic medicine, or Ayurvedic medicine. None.   (NEXT)   40% of Israel could be infected with Covid-19 in current wave, says PM   France24, January 10, 2022 Israel could see up to nearly 40 percent of the population infected by coronavirus during the current wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as testing facilities nationwide buckled Data presented at the cabinet meeting indicates that here, in Israel, between two to four million citizens in total will be infected during this current wave. A country of just 9.4 million, Israel has seen infections nearly quadruple over the past week compared to the previous one. The health ministry reported 17,518 new infections on Saturday. Health ministry data showed that more than 4.3 million Israelis were fully vaccinated with three shots, while 204 people are hospitalised in serious condition as a result of Covid-19 illness on Sunday. More than 1.5 million Covid cases, including 8,269 deaths, have been officially recorded in Israel.   (NEXT)   4th COVID Booster Shot Could Cause ‘Immune System Fatigue,' Scientists Say   As Israel moves ahead with fourth COVID shot, scientists told the New York Times the additional booster may cause more harm than good. Childrens Health Defense, January 7, 2022 COVID-19 booster shots could do more harm than good, according to scientists interviewed late last month by The New York Times. The scientists warned “that too many shots might actually harm the body's ability to fight COVID” and “might cause a sort of immune system fatigue.” On Monday, Israeli authorities began offering anyone over age 60 a chance to get a fourth shot, or second booster of the COVID vaccine. But scientists told The Times, before Israel confirmed it would offer the fourth shot, the science is not yet settled on using an additional booster shot to combat the new Omicron variant. There is one official report of an Israeli dying from Omicron. However, according to The Times of Israel, it is unclear that Omicron caused the death of the individual — a man in his 60s hospitalized weeks earlier from a pre-existing condition. A new report from the UK Health Security Agency showed booster doses are less effective against Omicron than previous variants, and their effectiveness wears off in only 10 weeks. Professor Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist and chairman of Israel's Association of Public Health Physicians, told The New York Times there's no published scientific evidence a fourth shot is needed to prevent severe illness from Omicron. “Before giving a fourth shot, it is preferable to wait for the science,” Levine said.   (NEXT)   145-Country Study Shows Increase Of Transmission And Death After Introduction Of Covid Vaccines   Truth Press, January 11, 2022 Instead of bringing an end to this pandemic as promised, the widespread rollout of the experimental vaccines has actually caused a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths across the world, according to a recently published preprint study that looked at data from the 145 of the most vaccinated countries in the world. The 99-page study titled “Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries” found that in the US specifically, the jab has caused a whopping 38% more Covid cases per million – and an even more astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million. In total, researchers found that almost 90% (89.84%) of the 145 countries experienced this negative effect from the vaccines after they were made available. From the study: “Results indicate that the treatment (vaccine administration) has a strong and statistically significant propensity to causally increase the values in either y1 [variable chosen for deaths per million] or y2 [variable chosen for cases per million] over and above what would have been expected with no treatment. y1 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+115/-13), which means 89.84% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total deaths per million associated with COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment initiation [vaccines]. y2 showed an increase/decrease ratio of (+105/-16) which means 86.78% of statistically significant countries showed an increase in total cases per millionof COVID-19 due directly to the causal impact of treatment initiation.” Perhaps the most telling part of the study's results is that the countries which recorded the fewest Covid deaths in 2020 were the ones to experience the largest increases in cases and deaths once the vaccine was introduced, with some of them seeing increases as high as over a thousand percent. In the study's conclusion, researchers warned that the substantial increase in deaths and cases should be “highly worrisome” for the policymakers around the world who have been promoting the experimental vaccines as the “key to gain back our freedoms.”   (NEXT)   Covid Vaccine-Injuries: "An Avalanche", says Attorney Aaron Siri   In November 2021, attorney Aaron Siri explained to an expert panel at Congress that his firm was seeing "an avalanche of submissions" from people seeking help to sue after covid vaccine-injuries.         Here we are in early January 2022, and:        ~ The CDC's data released December 31, 2021 contains 1,017,001 covid vaccine-injury records.        ~ The WHO's global database (VigiAccess) has collected 2,933,902 covid vaccine-injury records.        Even young children are being vaccine-injured.       From CDC's own publication, MMWR Dec. 31, 2021:        ~ "5,277 VAERS reports received for children aged 5–11 years" [1,028 (19.5%) were excluded from this analysis]        ~ "Approximately 5.1% of parents reported that their child was unable to perform normal daily activities on the day after receipt of dose 1, and 7.4% after receipt of dose 2. Approximately 1% of parents reported seeking medical care in the week after vaccination"       ~ "Two reports of death during the analytic period [November 3 - December 19, 2021]

If you want your children and your wife and friends to survive no matter what, you are silly; for you are wanting things to be up to you that are not up to you, and things to be your own that are not your own. You are just as foolish if you want your slave to make no mistakes; for you are wanting inferiority not to be a flaw but something else. But if your wish is not to be frustrated in your desires, this is in your power. Train yourself, then, in this power that you do have. Our master is anyone who has the power to implement or prevent the things that we want or don't want. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, should wish for nothing or avoid nothing that is up to other people. Failing that, one is bound to be a slave. (Ench 14) There's nothing new in this chapter of the Encheiridion for those following the Exploring Encheiridion series. That is the nature of the Encheiridion, which Arrian created as a handbook a Stoic prokopton could keep readily available as a primer for Stoic doctrines. Therefore, many of the lessons are repeated in different forms. Nevertheless, as I was preparing for this podcast episode, I was struck by a question that inspired me to take this episode in another direction. The question is this: Why would anyone with a conscious or unconscious allegiance to the modern secular worldview consider Stoicism a viable way of life. Consider some other passages we've already covered in this Exploring Encheiridion series: When you kiss your little child or your wife, say that you are kissing a human being. Then, if one of them dies, you will not be troubled. (Encheiridion 3) Don't ask for things to happen as you would like them to, but wish them to happen as they actually do, and you will be all right. (Encheiridion 8) Never say about anything, “I have lost it”; but say, “I have returned it.” Has your little child died? “It has been returned.” Has your wife died? “She has been returned.” “I have been robbed of my land.” No, that has been returned as well. (Encheiridion 11) These statements by Epictetus contradict what all moderns, those raised in the West at least, are taught from childhood. When a person views these statements from the perspective of modernity, they will likely ask: How can anyone past or present assent to ideas like this? What kind of worldview could possibly support such apparently odd and counterintuitive ideas? Therein lies the conundrum moderns face when moderns encounter the Stoic texts. We are confronted with words like God, logos, and providence from the ancient Stoic worldview and likely lack the necessary knowledge to understand the meaning of these words within the context of Hellenistic Greek culture and the holistic philosophical system known as Stoicism. If moderns have any familiarity with words like God, logos, and providence, it likely comes from religious training or college professors who mocked these ideas. Therefore, secular-minded, enlightened, educated moderns might feel justified in rejecting those ideas. In fact, moderns may feel compelled to reject them as antiquated, pre-Enlightenment ideas. Unfortunately, that judgment of Stoicism is based on a modern worldview with some underlying assumptions and consequences moderns may have never considered. I know that was true for me. As I've previously said on this podcast, I was a hardcore atheist when I started studying Stoicism. It took me almost a year to overcome the misconceptions and cognitive biases of my modern worldview. Worldviews are essential because they guide our beliefs and actions in ways that may evade our conscious awareness and circumspection. Jean-Baptiste Gourinat wrote about this in a paper titled Stoicism Today in 2009. He discussed the connection between Stoicism and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—CBT—which is partly derived from Stoic principles. He wrote: Cognitive therapy is based on three hypotheses: (1) one's behaviour springs from one's view of oneself and the world,

Eines der am wenigsten bekannten, aber jederzeit zugänglichen und stärksten Werkzeuge für unsere innere Arbeit ist der Atem. Leider wissen die meisten Menschen nicht um die Fähigkeiten und speziell die heilenden Funktionen unseres Atems bescheid. Das Erste und auch das Letzte was wir in unserem Leben tun - zu atmen - unsere "Life Force", ohne die kein Leben möglich wäre, dient dabei als Tool, um alte Muster in uns Selbst zu transformieren. Annette Fehse hatte eine wichtige Rolle bei unserem letzten Psilocybin Retreat in den Niederlanden indem Sie am Ankunftstag für die Teilnehmer eine 3h Breathwork Sitzung leitete. Wir sprechen heute über die transformative Kraft unseres Atems und welche physischen, emotionalen und spirituellen Kräfte freigesetzt werden können, wenn wir das “verbundene Atmen” für eine längere Zeit durchführen. Eigenverantwortung, Traumarelease, Annehmen von Widerstand und Vertrauen auf den eigenen Körper und dessen Heilungskräfte sind alles wichtige Lernfaktoren, die dabei als Vorbereitung für die hochdosierte Pilzerfahrung im Anschluss dienen. Ihr hört zudem Beispiele zu diversen Heilerfahrungen ihrer Schüler und warum es auch als "Shortcut to enlightenment” gesehen wird. Ihr bekommt Tipps für den Alltag wie ihr besser mit dem Atem die in euch ruhende Lebensenergie lenken und aktivieren könnt. Annette wird uns auch bei den kommenden 3 Retreats in 2022 unterstützen. Updates dazu folgen bald. --------------------------------------- Viel Spaß beim Zuhören und ich freue mich wenn ihr eine positive Bewertung da lasst und den Podcast mit Freunden teilt. Um jede Woche die neuesten Folgen und Updates per Mail zu erhalten, melde dich gerne beim Newsletter an. --------------------------------------- Link zu Annette's Coaching: https://movimiento.nu/ --------------------------------------- Hier findest du mehr über mich Newsletter & Coaching: https://www.alexanderfaubel.com/ Instagram: @alex_faubel @psychedelische_retreats

Recently, Anna and Amber sat down with Rachel Watkins, a biological anthropologist and scholar-activist whose research centers on social and biological histories of Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn about the social history of biological anthropology, the exemplary case studies with which Dr. Watkins has worked, why you shouldn't discount the creepy things small children sometimes do, and so much more! Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message for more information. Links Rachel Watkins Faculty Profile (American University) Rachel J. Watkins on ResearchGate The Mismeasure of Man (WW Norton) The Cobb Collection (W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory) Watch Now! African Diasporic Activist Scholarship: Beyond the Enlightenment, Toward the Democratization of Science (Wenner-Gren Blog) Science and Freedom (Washington History) Contact Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

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  Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 7, 2022 During the past two years, the rise in wokeness and its cancel culture has shocked the sensibilities and moral fabric of the nation. It has fuelled divisions between races, class and economic status, levels of education and political allegiances. However, the anger that wokeness has carried into civil discourse is a symptom of a much deeper causal factor buried in the national psyche; that is, America's pervasive “reality deficit disorder (RDD).” This is a condition that has proliferated across the American landscape since the Age of Enlightenment and the 19th century's advent of scientific materialism as a secular religion.  The proponents of modern behaviorism and the neurosciences are likewise saturated with RDD. The Woke self-congratulating experts and false prophets are its public face.  These are plastic liberal intellectuals who have found reinforced their sense of self-righteousness by spreading the post-modern gospel of Robin DiAngelo's 2018 bestseller White Fragility. Despite the widespread adulation DiAngelo has received from liberal educators, the mega-corporate elite, and the left media, she has managed to jockey herself away from the deep scrutiny her writings and lectures deserve.  An exception is Jonathan Church, author of Reinventing Racism, who brilliantly exposes DiAngelo's flaws and deconstructs her façade of her impartial objectivity.  Church takes a more philosophical offensive to shed light on DiAngelo's implicit biases and contradictions that in turn distort the very ideas she attempts to proselytize. While we agree wholeheartedly with Church's polemic, we would take a more cognitive approach and state that DiAngelo's racial theories of irredeemable Whiteness as an inherent social construct have no basis in reality whatsoever. White Fragility reads like a tantrum by an author with a third-rate intellect who is deeply confused about her own gender and racial identity. “All white people,” DiAngelo wants us to believe, “are invested in and collude with racism.” If you were born White then racism is built into your socialized development and behavior regardless whether your family background is exemplary of racial justice or not. There can be no escape from this curse, DiAngelo suggests, no redemption or purification by fire regardless of how much penitence, public service or charity you perform for the greater good. We wonder whether she would include the indigenous blond hair, blue-eyed Finno-Ugric peoples inhabiting the northern forests and tundra of Scandinavia and Russia's Kola Peninsula as being socially structured and therefore colluding in the world's racism. The author reminds us of someone who has read every published book about chocolate and thus feels qualified to write one of her own despite never having tasted chocolate. Philosophy and postmodern sociology in general, notably the modern philosophies of science and mind, often suffer from this mental affliction. They write books about other philosophers' books who in turn wrote books about their predecessors' scribbling. Right-wing critics of wokeness and certain factions within postmodern Critical Race Theory likewise indulge in a similar cognitive hallucination built upon feeble-minded pre-Galilean superstitions. Their perceptions about themselves and the world, their righteous anger and biases, are similar to dreamscapes, phantoms they have conjured and which can have dire long-term consequences to the welfare of innocent victims prejudiced and canceled by their vitriol and condemnation. There have always been conflicting ideologies, cherished beliefs and inflamed emotions towards racial discrepancies, social order and justice or how the nation should be governed. But today these cognitive afflictions, masquerading as passions and righteous causes have disintegrated into tribalism. This is now fomenting new class and racial distinctions and struggles as well as media turf wars. No one can accurately predict where this collective reality deficit disorder will lead ultimately but it certainly won't contribute to a positive advancement of human well-being. It repeats the old adage of garbage in, garbage out. “The greatest need of our time,” the Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, “is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see we cannot think.”  Merton believed that this “purification must begin with the mass media.”  We would suggest it also begins with our educational institutions. Teachers who embrace White Fragility's social folly and logical fallacies need to introspectively gaze and observe the destructive ataxia nesting in their own minds.  If anyone wonders why the nation is so angry, screaming and protesting, one reason is because the failed neoliberal experiment, the culture of political nepotism, a captured and biased media, and a thoroughly corrupt judiciary have created this horror show. And DiAngelo seemingly wants to gather tinder to keep racial conflagrations burning. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous," Martin Luther King lamented, "than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." It is our deep ignorance about not first knowing ourselves and appreciating our intrinsic interconnections with each other and the environment that perpetuates the suffering around us. These deeper existential relationships can potentially outsmart and surpass the benefits Critical Race Theory has to offer. Underlying any social structure is to be found cognitive causal relationships. This includes our attachments to whatever accomplishments and failures we experience in our lives through racial identity, which may lead to a reality deficit with all of its superiority complexes, apathy and depression. First, there is sufficient empirical science to reach a consensus that we are a culture that has become habituated to mistaking its unfounded perceptions about itself and the world as reality-based. This applies to our cognitive conceptions of Whiteness, Blackness, Yellowness, etc. Church makes this clear; DiAngelo's use of the term Whiteness is “nebulous” and “vague.”  He points out that her logic falls into a Kafka Trap, referring to Kafka's novel The Trial when an unassuming man is dragged into court and accused for an unspecified crime; subsequently his unwavering denial is itself interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation is true. “Yes, all white people are complicit with racism,” writes DiAngelo, “People will insist that they are not racist… This is the kind of evidence that many white people used to exempt themselves from that system. It is not possible to be exempt from it.” Consequently, for DiAngelo, Whites can only speak about their “whiteness” in terms of how it reinforces an implicit racism within the social system. But from a neuro-scientific perspective, all colored racisms are skewed perceptions of reality. For example, when we gaze into a deep azure sky we immediately assume there is physical blue over our heads. However, there are no blue-colored photons reaching our retinas. Rather, our brains receive the emitted photons and through a complex channeling of information from the eye to the visual cortex. The brain then Photoshops the color azure and projects it through our glance into the empty space of the sky. The same is true whether we gaze at a verdant forest canopy, a fiery sunset, the fluorescent, shimmering hues of a fanning peacock's feathers or observing an African, Asian or European person crossing the street. There is nothing mysterious behind this; it is visual brain science 101. No neuroscientist questions this visual phenomenon.  We reify the sensory stimuli the brain receives from the objective world and then grasp and cling to these as being factually real. Theoretically race may be understood as only a conventional or relative appearance arising to our mental perceptions. No absolute objective claims can be made about it; therefore, there cannot be any absolute analyses or one-size-fits-all solutions for confronting racism either. In striking contrast to White Fragility's cognitive deficiencies, we may consider an argument posed by the great Jewish German existentialist Martin Buber. Buber speaks of an I-You relationship when we engage with another person as another subject instead of as an object. There's a subject there, and that subject is every bit as real as the subject over here. For example, as much as I might care about my own well-being, then so does another person. To transcend White Fragility's divisions and its many shortcomings, which relate to others as I-Its -- as mere objects -- we simply need to be aware of Buber's advice, and become fully engaged with that reality. Buber highlights this as a profoundly existential problem in modern society. It is debilitating.  It is dehumanizing, although for DiAngelo and the cancel culture preserving racial I-It relationships is not only valid but essential. When we regard others simply in terms of whether the color of their skin is appealing or unappealing, pleasant or unpleasant, superior or inferior, and so forth we are bifurcating impressions that have no substance in reality. We are simply treating other sentient beings as if they have no more sentience, no more subjectivity, no more presence from their own side than a robot or computer. But that seems fine for DiAngelo and her tragic dehumanizing dogma. If DiAngelo were unintelligent or had severe brain damage, we might understand and would certainly sympathize. But she -- and we would argue many of those who would carry White Fragility's banner into school classrooms -- are likely very educated people. That is the calamity and the clear evidence for the deep-seated spiritual impoverishment when a person is viewed as nothing more than the race of their physical bodies. If anti-racial wokeness is true, then the more deeply we probe and investigate it, the truer it should appear. This was one of William James' fundamental principles when he made efforts to turn the psychology of his day into a valid science. If James' methodology had not been obliterated by the rise of behaviorism in 1910, psychology would be completely different today. We might actually be treating and curing people of mental disorders without prescribing life-long medications. On the other hand, if DiAngelo's hypothesis is false, the more deeply one investigates, which includes introspection, the more false it will appear. That is where robust inquiry comes in: to determine what is simply true regardless of whatever your personal unsubstantiated and biased beliefs about it might be. What you believe has absolutely no impact upon whether something is true or not. This is also basic Buddhist epistemology that has been repeatedly replicated by contemplatives for several millennia. Neuroscience, including its gross failures and tendencies towards metaphysical realism, has more to tell us about the inherent dangers in White Fragility's doctrine. First, modern brain science has not produced an iota of evidence to confirm that the mind and consciousness are solely a product or output originating in neuron and synaptic activity. None. Contrary to the evidence, most neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists nevertheless embrace this opinion as a settled matter. But it is ridiculous to believe that evolution somehow dragged along our ancient single-celled ancestors until some point was reached when a conscious mind -- a “nothing” that is not observable, not measurable, not quantifiable, without atoms or photons, mass, electric charge or spin – mysteriously arose out of something, such as genes and biomolecular phenomena. Therefore cognitive scientists pretend to know something about the mind and consciousness when in fact they haven't a clue. Although DiAngelo is not stating that socialized racism among Whites is genetically determined, the trajectory of her argument has the potential to lead towards that conclusion. She does consider systemic White racism as being unconscious. Therefore she has moved her social theory into psychology. Since modern psychology today is becoming increasingly informed by the neurosciences, which in turn is being informed by evolutionary biology, it is only a small leap away to find her theory complementing genetic determinism as a means to explain Whiteness' conditioned racism. If her socialized determinism, and that of the neuroscience and evolutionary biology fields, are correct, then it would break the fundamental physical laws of energy conservation and causal efficacy. In effect, DiAngelo is saying White people have no choice. It's socialized chemistry or its socialized chemistry; either way its socialized chemistry.  In effect, DiAngelo is admitting that her own perceptions about reality are fundamentally flawed. Why is that? Dr. Donald Hoffman has been a professor of neuroscience at the University of California at Irvine for over three decades. He has an impeccable background having studied artificial intelligence at MIT. But unlike the vast majority of his colleagues, Hoffman broke ranks and passed beyond neuroscience's 19th century mechanistic base and dared to study modern quantum physics and relativity theory. Theoretical physics is almost anathema in human biological research and medicine, which is why these soft sciences have made so little progress to improve human health and well-being. Hoffman has performed hundreds of thousands of simulations comparing different species and their chances for survival based upon their ability to perceive and comprehend reality more accurately or not. His discoveries are startling and utterly revolutionary. Hoffman discovered, across the board, species that best perceive reality go extinct more rapidly than competing species that only perceive what is necessary for them to remain fit and survive. During an interview following a TED Talk, Hoffman stated, “according to evolution by natural selection,” – and here he is limiting himself solely to evolutionary biological theory and not the various competing theories about the nature of consciousness – “an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness. Never.” In other words, evolution has nothing to do with perceiving reality more clearly, but only to be more fit in order to adapt, survive and procreate. And now physicists are even telling us that the primal cause behind all physical objects may be consciousness itself, which has no association whatsoever with natural selection. For example, Professor Edward Witten, regarded as “the world's smartest” physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, has been compared to Newton and Einstein. Witten doesn't believe science will ever understand consciousness. “I think consciousness will remain a mystery,” Witten stated during a lecture, ”I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness.” Or we can listen to Stanford University theoretical physicist Andre Linde: “The current scientific model of the material world obeying laws of physics has been so successful that we forget our starting point as conscious observers, and conclude that matter is the only reality and that perceptions are only helpful for describing it. But in fact, we are substituting the reality of our experience of the universe with a conceptually contrived belief…” One may feel our critique is too abstract with little or no practical application; however to at least conceptually understand race in terms of our sensory perceptions can have enormous benefits to cut through and lessen the false semblances that arise from reality deficit disorder that winds up producing books such as White Fragility. Moreover, contrary to DiAngelo's arguments, British journalist Melanie Phillips offers a clearer understanding for why we should not rely upon the pundits of anti-racial wokeness to save us from ourselves. Despite disagreeing with Phillips on many of her other socio-political positions, she correctly identifies the fundamental flaws being voiced by arrested development wokeness across our campuses and within the corporate wing of the Democrat party. First, it is unable to establish a hierarchy of values and morals. For example, if one refuses to say that any lifestyle or culture is better than another, then it cannot be said that liberalism is better than conservatism or any other ideology.  Consequently, faux liberalism cannot legitimately defend the very principles upon which it defines itself: racial and gender equality, freedom of speech and religion, justice and tolerance, and class struggle.  It contradicts its own principles and follows DiAngelo's footsteps to remove the dignity of the individual, which in the past was at the heart of authentic liberalism and once served as its moral backbone. What we are witnessing therefore in Woke liberalism – and in DiAngelo's reinvention of racism -- is “the strong dominating the weak,” and this is an ill-liberal ideology that is already showing signs of having catastrophic consequences in classrooms and the workplace. Finally, if DiAngelo's theory is correct, then all Whites, without exception, in American history, were unconsciously transmuted into racists starting at the time of their birth. What is her proof? Is there any scientific evidence to support this outrageous claim? Did she consider the lack of sensitivity towards other peoples and races who were victims of racial identity and violence, such as the Jews who experienced genocide at hands of their Nazi overlords? And what would she say against those Whites who have fought against racism throughout the American experience, such as the Abolitionists in the US and UK who put their bodies at great risk?  In principle she is labeling them too as racist despite their fighting, protesting and even dying as committed anti-racists. Many Whites have embraced other races and cultures with open arms; however, DiAngelo wants us to believe this legacy was a sham, because in some strange voodoo way they were unconsciously racist. Is this not the height of hubris and arrogance?

Amy Vandenbroucke of POLST (Portable Medical Orders) joins us to discuss getting our shit together, by which she means advance care planning in relation to end-of-life decisions. Whew! Starting the new year with comfy conversations that people don't stress about at all. Amy has some ideas that may make the subject more approachable and empowering for those of us that don't rush toward this topic naturally. Links discussed:POLSTThe Conversation ProjectPrepare for Your CareGo WishGet Your Shit Together

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We all need to find emotional equivalents to our intellectual understandings if our spiritual practice is to progress. Here Sangharakshita talks about how joy and happiness are characteristic Buddhist emotions that we seem to be missing out on. Mudita, the happiness we feel in other people's good fortune, can be cultivated through practice. From the talk entitled Reason and Emotion in the Spiritual Life: Right Resolve, outlining the positive emotions emphasized in Buddhism. Talk given in 1968 as part of the series The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast:  On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast:  On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting! Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone: donate now! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: YouTube  |  Instagram  |  Twitter  |  Facebook  |  Soundcloud

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I interviewed Laura Patrica Martin. Laura is an IBS-Anxiety and Trauma Specialist and the founder of the Healing to Happy Brand. She is known for her unique approach to gut health and mental wellness..⁣. After battling her way through trauma, loss, addictions she found herself with a surplus of health issues such as IBS, hypothyroidism, hormonal imbalances, and skin issues. Majority of what she found out there was what a lot of us find: restrictive diets, medications, and a lot of "we don't know what's wrong with you". This is when she dove into nutrition to begin healing from the inside out in 2016, but that didn't resolve the IBS issues, so she followed up her studies by specializing in gut health... which still didn't solve the whole problem, so she found her way into trauma support specialist. It was a journey of evolution and growth. Still, since the creation of Healing to Happy in 2017, Laura has gone to help hundreds of women around the globe heal their trauma, resolve their health issues, and RISE into the women they are meant to become. By understanding that her illnesses were just symptoms and taking the proper steps in the appropriate order at the right time, Laura's shift is a testament to her work and teachings that now serve women all around the globe!⁣⁣Her revolutionary teachings are taking the world by storm. With helping women reclaim their bodies and find their way back to safety, her revitalized approach to the nervous system world has left many intrigued and magnetized.⁣. She celebrates her clients who relieve their IBS and find safety to heal anxiety, and release trauma after years of struggling. Still, beyond that, she celebrates their lives, their newfound power, their embodiment and confidence, their womanhood. ⁣She will make you feel, help you evolve, and inspire you to soar. ⁣I encourage everyone to follow her and be transformed through her insights.Everyone has a story, and this is her story.Below are the sites that house her work.https://www.instagram.com/lauramartin_h2h/https://www.instagram.com/healingtohappy/https://www.facebook.com/healingtohappyVisit our Threads store:  https://threads-of-enlightenment.myshopify.com/We shop worldwide to find some of the highest-quality and some limited hard-to-find products online for you. We work closely MaryRuth's Makes the best supplements for your health by creating non-GMO, plant-based, vegan ingredients.Semrush SEO content marketing, competitor research, PPC & social media marketing from just one platform.Timeshare Specialists Our programs provide a fast, safe, guaranteed timeshare exitSol de Janeiro Body-loving products, addictive scents, and luxurious textures to touch all your senses.Our Aroma Our Aroma brings a whole new personalized approach to the health and beauty sector.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=2QSM5QR4P2JQQ)

Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and meditator Ruben Laukkonen about the phenomenology of the insight experience, how the sequence of deepening meditative practices maps onto the model of predictive processing in the human brain, the Eureka heuristic, what neuroscience can tell us about the deconstructive model of meditation, the science of cessations, and much more. Ruben Laukkonen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and lecturer at Amsterdam University College. Ruben seeks to uncover an empirically grounded and experientially authentic understanding of meditation, insight, and non-duality. Using a combination of neuroimaging, machine learning, and phenomenology, he is investigating some of the rarest states of consciousness available to human beings. Ruben has an eclectic contemplative background, including traditions such as Zen, Advaita, and Theravada.Learn more at https://rubenlaukkonen.com/Help to support the Deconstructing Yourself podcast at Patreon.Or give a one-time donation: DonateSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We discuss the final episode of the first season of See! We discuss the season's climaxes and the setup into season two. Overall, the first season of See, is an incredibly rewarding watch from the action and dialogue that provide a rich canvas to explore the characters' stories. Show Notes: (00:53) Meeting the father (02:44) Modern Comforts (04:57) Haniwa's Goal (06:16) The family dynamic (08:26) God Complex (11:13) Choosing a side (14:12) The Betrayal (20:47) Queen Kane's Situation (27:40) Not giving up power (31:16) Dial Up the Crazy (35:48) Where is Baba Voss? (38:29) Baba Voss vs Jerlamerel (48:24) What was the point of the fight? (51:20) A knife in the back (55:35) Two Halves (58:57) Closing Thoughts For more content checkout: Podcast - https://feedingcuriosity.net/podcast Blogs - https://feedingcuriosity.net/blog Blueprints - https://feedingcuriosity.net/blueprints --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/support

Guess who's baaaaack?! Jessie is now a world traveler and shares it all about her trip to London. She's truly finding herself!! We have a wonderful talk about self-worth, understanding self needs, and so much more! This chick has standards and she's holding herself to them. Chris is also thinking about taking a solo trip too, especially after witnessing this growth. We're out here living our best versions of ourselves. So happy to be back.

Connie's motivational quotes for today is by – Jimmy Dean, “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”   YouTube: https://youtu.be/JPb560FAy34   Check Out These Highlights:  This is one of my favorite quotes.  When things are not going well in my life, I know I always have a choice in how I choose to respond. Here's the ugly truth, we all face hardship and tragedy during our life.   I believe that social media shows the highlights, and happy times in life not the tragedy that is so common for us all.  This can be isolating. We love to compare ourselves to others in our feed.  We view these posts and images thinking to ourselves, “They look so happy, their family seems so close, good things happen to them but not to me.”  The lists go on.  So how do we deal with hardship?    About Mark Aylward: I am looking forward to my conversation today with my friend and brilliant guest Mark Aylward.  Mark and I are going to discuss his 30+ years as a staffing expert and business owner. Mark is a single father of three beautiful adult children. A proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Marketing degree and is a lifelong entrepreneur and staffing expert who has built and sold 2 staffing firms.   He is a fitness and nutrition advocate and an avid reader/writer and is currently transitioning to online career coaching and professional consulting.   How to Get in Touch With Mark Aylward: Email:  mark@7pillarsglobal.com Website:  www.7pillarsglobal.com   Stalk me online! Enlightenment of Change Facebook group: tinyurl.com/EOCFacebookGroup   Website:  https://whitmanassoc.com   Connie's #1 International Bestseller Book - ESP (Easy Sales Process): 7-Step to Sales Success:  https://whitmanassoc.com/resources/   Download Free Communication Style Assessment:  www.whitmanassoc.com/csa   Subscribe and listen to Enlightenment of Change podcast on your favorite podcast streaming service or on YouTube.  New episodes post every week - listen to Connie dive into new sales and business topics or problems you may have in your business.  

If our metta is strong enough, it will become mudita, altruistic joy for others. Concise and essential, Satyaraja draws out practical and profound aspects of the four Brahmaviharas, considering them as both meditation practices and as realms that we can occupy. From the talk entitled Mudita, part of the series Brahmaviharas and the Awakening of the Bodhi Mind, Padmaloka Buddhist Centre, 2016. *** Subscribe to our Dharmabytes podcast:  On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts Bite-sized inspiration three times every week. Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast:  On Apple Podcasts | On Spotify | On Google Podcasts A full, curated, quality Dharma talk, every week. 3,000,000 downloads and counting! Subscribe using these RSS feeds or search for Free Buddhist Audio or Dharmabytes in your favourite podcast service! Help us keep FBA Podcasts free for everyone: donate now! Follow Free Buddhist Audio: YouTube  |  Instagram  |  Twitter  |  Facebook  |  Soundcloud

In this special episode, the Bearded Mystic talks about 2021, the achievements, the proud moments along with the vision for 2022. To get more detail on what will happen in 2022, you can find it on this Blog Post on Patreon that is accessible to everyone: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60549889 I hope you enjoyed listening to the special episode of the The Bearded Mystic Podcast. If you are interested in listening  to more content like this, please follow/subscribe to this Podcast.Please rate and write a review for this Podcast, it will be greatly appreciated. Every review will be read out in the following episode.New episodes will be available every Sunday.To join The Bearded Mystic Podcast's Patreon community,  click here:  https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedmysticpodcastYou can listen or watch the Podcast on various  streaming platforms. You can find them here: https://linktr.ee/thebeardedmysticpodcastYou can follow me and contact me on social media:TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdk3HPJh/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebeardedmysticpodcast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBeardedMysticPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bearded_mysticFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Bearded-Mystic-PodcastSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedmysticpodcast)

The second episode deals with the universal understanding. We need to have a nuanced understanding that Aliens and Extraterrestrial foreigners visiting earth are not necessarily invaders. There is an inevitability of Creation manifesting upon the celestial formations in our local solar system. The harvest, the topic of discussion in this series, will transform collective evolution by coming together in unity of Creation. Open up your mind to see the inter-galactic community of societies, harvest your thoughts and help others to cultivate that creational serum into life. You must have love and understanding, a gentle reminder of Creation and Free Will. www.higherdensityliving.com

The first part of this class is a guided Shaktipat Meditation to start off the new year powerfully. Shakti is energy, we tune into energy. Then Swami Steven explains what the Self Mastery Course comprises and how you can join. Starts Jan 8th. To learn more or sign up go to www.EnlightenmentTV.com 

In this episode we talk about how to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions and identify with pure awareness. • Includes a guided meditation that takes you step by step from full identification with an emotion to full connection with awareness. Don't forget to subscribe for more ingenious ways to tap into the ever-present stillness and joy of our true nature. Feedspot calls Awareness Explorers one of the "Best Spiritual Podcasts on the Planet." Here's their list of the Top Spiritual Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts/ To learn more about Awareness Explorers, and to listen to all of our podcast episodes, please visit: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/ If you want to listen to the meditations alone, you can find all of our meditations excerpted either in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAVvivvVVGNfQgJxbWB6dF6Z Or on our Awareness Explorers website: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/meditations To Support Awareness Explorers, please consider clicking the "Donate" button on any AwarenessExplorers.com page, or becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/awarenessexplorers To learn more about Jonathan Robinson and Brian Tom O'Connor, please visit https://findinghappiness.com/ and https://www.playawarenessgames.com/ You can listen to all of our episodes on this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThffcko0gAXyaArC4OyY0y84CZ8uSb_n Enjoy, Jonathan and Brian Photo by Louis-Philippe Poitras on Unsplash

A can't miss, intense, dynamic conversation between Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk and Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec that spans everything from ancient philosophy to the enlightenment to the impact of God in modern society.Here is your daily dose of Human Events with @JackPosobiec